EDIT: Sorry took so long to respond! Had to help my family member out of the hospital. I will be on for the next couple hours here and have taken time to respond to all current comments. I welcome others! Also. Already set up another date for Saturday. Will keep you all posted on that if it is worthy of noting.

Second FR post on here. I try and keep the conversations as detailed as possible for anything you guys can learn from it and maybe criticize me on. There were also ALOT of dynamics to this night so sorry for the wall of text but I'm really going to try and capture everything. Also keep in mind I am no contest winning writer. Sorry. lol

Little back story. I'm 21/m went out this weekend to a local bar that had a pretty good local band playing, with my taken buddy 33/m plus his girl 45/f and a mutual friend 30/f. Realization 1. Who you surround yourself with is a huge bonus to being in state and qualifying yourself. Especially in this particular case.

We started the night at a sports bar around 4:30 with food and drinks. Little bit of pregame if you will. It's our go-to start the night spot and all the waitresses are familiar with our little group. Great way to start off in state.

Around 8:30 we made our way to the bar with the band playing and my wing and I start scoping out some sets to open. First set is pay dirt. Easily HB8 but just shy of 9, 2 older HB7s (keep in mind when I say older I mean upper 30s to 40s).

Wing to my target HB8: Hey how do you feel about tall, dark and handsome? (she looks at him who by the way isnt tall) No not me him..(points to me)

Meanwhile I act like I'm not paying attention at all but facing them enough to gauge her reaction.

HB8: Oh hes cute. (with just a hint of a smile behind the gaurd)

So my wing gets her name (Anna for all intents and purposes) age (31) and she told him she has 3 kids. Obviously meant to be a shit-test regardless if its true or not. I'm pretty much at a 9 outta 10 on my in state level so I'm locked and loaded and ready to go.

Perfect hand off. Two minutes later I pull up a chair to her table and sit down.

Me: What did he say to you?

A: (kinda looks at me, sizing me up) Nothing (with a smile)

Me: C'mon now im not that naive.

A: That you were a really nice guy and you were too shy to talk to me even though your hot. (shit test)

Me: Bullshit. (shit eating grin)

A: (taken back by my blatency) What?

Me: Were not off to a very good start here with you telling me lies right off the bat.

A: How do you know I'm lying?

Me: 2 ways. 1. Your eyes say more than your words. What most people havent figured out is to pay attention to someones eyes and facial expressions and youll learn more about a person than anything they can say. (shes giving me an astonished look as well as pretty amusingly aghast at my blatant but not dbag-ish tactics so far). And 2. That's my best friend and co-worker and I know he would never give me a compliment like that. (she smiles, laughs and plays with her hair a little bit. IOI's all over the place)

A: So how old are you?

Me: (pretend to almost answer and stop myself) How old do you think I am?

A: 25? 26?

Me: 25 sounds good we'll go with that for now.

A: Come on, tell me how old you are!

Me: (take a drink) Maybe I will later.

So we make small talk for a bit. I've got her laughing and I opened her friends and made small talk with everyone which they all warmed up to. They all girls so of course the all get up to go to the bathroom together.

A: Dont go anywhere while were gone! (hand on my leg and definitely mixing up our personal space)

Me: (motioned her closer making her put the effort in) I wont go anywhere as long as you bring me back a drink.

A: Budlight?

Me: You got it.

She and her friends come back and she brings my drink and I thank her and we make more small talk and demolish some minor shit tests. I dont remember exactly what they were but I do remember thinking "THANK YOU SEDDIT! HA!". Then she throws out a huge shit test out of no where.

A: Do you believe in god?

Me: (off guard a little bit from being blind sided). Do I believe in god?

A: ( she sits back looking just a tad smug I think because she thought she finally thought she blew me out of the water) Yea. Do you believe in god?

So I answered her with my honest personal opinion which was a little longwinded to type out but also intellectual.

A: Wow.

Me: Hey you asked the question....

A: (she laughs again) No I know but I wasn't expecting you to have an actual intellectual sensible response. Most guys are either yes or no.

Me: In case you haven't figured it out I'm not most guys.

Shes all smiles at this point sits back a bit and basically gives me a look that tells me I've pretty much baffled her as well as built an extreme attraction.

A: Your. Really hot. Now how old are you?

At this point I knew I was in so I dropped it on her.

Me: I'm 21.

The look she gave me was priceless. Astonishment. Disbelief. Surprise. Incredulous. It was exactly the reaction I was going for.

A: Bullshit. Bullshit. Bull. Shit.

Me: No really I'm 21.

She still doesnt believe me so I showed her my ID and it took probably 5 to 10 of her trying to get over it. Then my wing and consequently my ride walks over. Its about 1:30AM.

Wing to A: Hey were about to leave and I'm his ride. Are you sick of him yet or will you take care of him?

A: (she laughs and kinos me hand on leg etc.) No he's fine. (looks at me) in more ways than one. I'll take care of him.

Wing: Ok then were out.

We make more small talk and I AMOG the shit out of some player wanna be AFC being a dick to one of the HB7's. It almost went beyond AMOGing to physical but he finally got the hint and left.

A ate it up. Increased attraction and played the good guy role. We decided to hit ihop after the bar. Lotsa small talk there. In which she learned that I have a job, a car, and I dont live with my parents. Huge qualifiers. Ones that I did not immediately throw out on purpose as to not look as if I was trying to qualify to her.

We clicked so well we played it up to the waiter as if we had just finished our divorce papers and was out with our lawyer (her HB7 friend from earlier). I mean played it out perfect. The waiter bought it hook line and sinker and we just had a blast.

I number closed on our way to the car (nothing special needed as I was beyond in). I drove us to my place and didnt want her friend to feel awkward so we met halfway around the outside when she was switching to the drivers seat. Kinoed a bit. K closed. End of story. Theres alot more dynamics to the night as well but 1. I was pretty intoxicated until the food hit and 2. Its hard to explain some of the other things.

I will be following through and finishing the deal. And after this wonderful (IMHO) PUA performance it pains me that I may actually be interested in taking this further than just a FWB situation.

Again sorry for the wall of text. I'm at work for another 2 hours. Would really love some input. Positive or criticism. Also just slammed this out at work. Will re-edit tomorrow for spelling and clarity.

TL;DR: There isnt one. If you dont want to read the whole story and understand it for what its worth. Re-evaluate being on this subreddit.